Lead Data Engineer

About ADA
ADA is the Data and AI Experience Company. We work with global enterprises to build data and AI powered experiences where every decision runs on real-time intelligence and every interaction earns trust. That's how businesses scale, stay ahead, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Our mission is ambitious: to create the world’s most intelligent growth platform for every client we serve. With over 1500+ customers across Retail, Food and Beverage, CPG, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Healthcare and Automotive , we operate in 35 markets around the world.
# Lead Data Engineer
Experience:** 5–8 years | **Location:** Bangalore/India | **Type:** Full-time
🎯 ROLE
Lead the design, build, and operations of a production-grade data platform. Own end-to-end pipelines, set engineering standards, and mentor a team of Data Engineers delivering data for analytics, ML, and product use cases.
🛠️ Responsibilities
Lead & mentor a team of Data Engineers — code reviews, design reviews, growth plans
Design and operate ETL/ELT pipelines in Python for batch and streaming workloads
Own data modelling across PostgreSQL / Supabase (OLTP) and Cassandra (wide-column)
Build and run orchestration on Apache Airflow — DAG design, SLAs, retries, backfills
Deploy and operate the platform on AWS (EC2-based, self-managed stack)
Establish data governance: catalog, lineage, ownership, MDM, data quality, profiling, observability
Drive engineering excellence — Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing, IaC, code review
💡 PRODUCT MINDSET
Treat the data platform as a long-lived product, not a project:
Own outcomes across the full lifecycle — design, delivery, operations, iteration
Optimise for scale, reliability, and maintainability with measurable SLAs and cost targets
Prioritise based on user value (analytics, ML, product teams as customers)
Ship iteratively; measure adoption, quality, and reliability continuously
✅ MUST-HAVE
5–8 years in data engineering with proven experience leading and mentoring engineers
Expert Python and strong SQL
Production experience with PostgreSQL, Supabase, and Apache Cassandra
Hands-on ownership of Apache Airflow at scale
Comfortable running data workloads on AWS EC2 (Linux, networking, self-managed services)
Strong ETL, data modelling, orchestration fundamentals
Practical experience implementing data governance — MDM, data quality, data profiling, observability, lineage/catalog
Agile, CI/CD, and coding best practices as everyday habits
➕ GOOD-TO-HAVE
Data security and compliance — encryption (KMS/at-rest/in-transit), PII handling, GDPR/PDPA
Streaming (Kafka, Kinesis) and lakehouse (Iceberg, Delta) exposure
IaC (Terraform, Ansible) for self-managed AWS stacks
🎓 EDUCATION
Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
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